Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes 'throwback to OG Facebook'

In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Meta logo on October 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Meta on Thursday debuted the Facebook Friends tab, a new feature that's part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pitch to revive the original spirit of his social networking app, or "OG Facebook" as he called it. "The new Friends tab is a throwback to OG Facebook when you only saw friends' status updates," Zuckerberg said in a post about the feature. "More OG Facebook coming soon " The Facebook Friends tab is designed to show users the latest posts from their friends instead of "recommended content," the company said in a blog post. The friend-related content include stories, reels, posts, birthdays and friend requests. The new tab marks a departure from the core Facebook feed, which is still the primary way users find and interact with content on the service. Meta has been increasingly using artificial intelligence to recommend content from acr ... Read full article.